Medieval Games (Rules & Materials)

For this assignment, we are to find 10-12 games. It's not just any type of games. It's the games people would play back then in the middle ages or in the medieval times. We are to find the name of the game, rules, and the materials of it. 

Medieval Games:

Prisoner's Base(Chevy Chase):

Materials for playing this game:

• a minimum of ten players or more
• chalk
• a large cement area

The rules to this game was that there are suppose to be two teams divided equally. Each team uses a chalk to draw a large square in their side and pretends that the square in the cell. One person from each team will be chosen as a prisoner meaning they will be stuck in the cell of the opposing team. People from opposing teams would try to go to the cell and release the prisoner. If you get caught by the opposite team(tagged by them), you are also stuck in the cell.

Archery:

Materials for playing this game:

• bows
• arrows

The rule for playing this game was that participants or joiners who wants to play this game will get a set of arrows and a bow and try to aim at the target. The closer they get to the target, the more points the archer or person gets. This game could been played by anyone even the lower class people.

Quoits(Ring Toss):

Materials for this game:

• rope rings 
• wooden pole for the base

To play this game, the wooden pole would be put as a base and participants would come up and get some rope rings to throw into the pole. If they got it in the pole, they would win.

Queek:

Materials for this game:

• large checkered cloth or a chessboard
• pebbles or marbles

The rules for this game was similar to heads and tails. The people that wanted to play queek throws the pebbles or marbles but before they do they either say black or white so when they throw it they see where the pebble lands. If it lands on what you said, you win. 

Stick Combat:

Materials for this game:

• sticks
• people
• blindfolds
• animals
• rope

The rules for this game was that there would be two people blindfolded and try to hit each other or fight with a stick. They also had animals to hit like gooses or pigs.

Blind Man's Bluff:

Materials for this game:

• people
• blindfold

The rules for playing this game is someone is going to be blindfolded and basically try to go around and tag people who is playing too. The last person who got tagged is it for the next round of the game.

Marbles:

Materials for this game:

• marbles
• people
• a target (hole or wall)

The rules for this game is the people playing will get a equal amount of marbles and throw it at the target which could either be a hole or wall.


Tug o War:

Materials for this game:

• long rope
• hazard (mud, water, etc.)
• gloves

The rule for this game is that there are teams of two and one team goes on each side and try to pull them into the hazard, which will be placed in the middle of the rope. In case, your hands hurt you could also use gloves to protect your hands. The winner is picked by whoever falls in the hazard first. 

Tic Tac Toe:

Materials for this game:

• grid (3x3)
• pencil or chalk

To play this game , it is exactly the same as tic tac toe today. X is the person who goes first and O goes next after X. You each take turns. The first person who gets X three times in a row vertically or horizontally wins. The winner gets to be X for the next round.

Wrestling:

Materials for this game:

• yourself 
• opponent to wrestle

Rules for this game is you basically hand to hand and try to fight and whoever goes on the ground first wins. Back then this game was made for the entertainment when having a feast.

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Tournament Medieval Rules

For this assignment, we are to find 3 sets of rules for jousting, dueling, and melee. 

Jousting: 

Jousting is when two mounted knights wearing armor and using lances. There are 3 sets of rules for jousting. It is kind of like martial arts.

Joust a plaisance:
 The first rule is when people gather and fight for several days. Once the contest is over, a winner will be picked. To pick the winner, the judge decides who hits the ground or the enemy fist. That is how they determine the winner.


Pas d' armes:
The second rule is that a knight that is participating in the jousting tournament will make an announcement that the knight would take on all the challengers and set a day, time, and place to fight. They join this tournament to test each other skills by fighting against each other. Again to win, they determine who hits the ground or the enemy first.

Modern Jousting:
Modern jousting is the same as joust a plaisance and pas d' armes. The only difference is that modern jousting has an advantage. If someone was hurt during a joust tournament, they were most likely to be taken care of and survive.


Dueling:
Dueling is when knights come together to fight at a tournament, combat, or contest.


Judicial Duel:
The first set of rule for judicial rule is that they only decide by success with the people's guilt and innocence. The combat would not start until noon and if the person fighting in the tournament were still alive till the stars are out, that person automatically win. Although, weapons such as staves and etc were restricted.


Private Duel:
The rule for private duel is that the tournament took place in hidden locations and the scary part is that there were no rules for this combat and no judges either. Some knights would carry sand in their pockets and later when the tournament starts, they would throw it at the opponent's face.


Tournament Single Combat:
The rule for this is that armor, shields, and battlefield weapons were used in this tournament. They had to fight on foot and the knights could use weapons such as axes and way many more. This dueling rule was really different compared to other dueling rules such as the private duel.



Melee:
Melee was a type of tournament back then people would play. People would fight as a team or group. The goal to win this game was to fight hand to hand.


Melee A Pied:
Melee a pied was the first rule of melee. The rule for this is that the teams were suppose to fight on foot. The only weapon they could use was their hand. The goal to win a melee tournament was to get the first person on the ground.


Melee A Cheval:
The next rule is called melee a cheval. It is really similar to melee a pied. The only difference was that you would ride a horse while you try to push the opposing team and the opposing team try to push you and your teammates off of the horse.


Modern Melee:
Modern melee is how we play melee today. The rule for modern melee is that weapons were must to be put away meaning that you can't use them during melee and armor must be worn at all time. We have an advantage to be playing melee today because deaths are uncommon when playing unlike medieval melee back then.

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Medieval Vocabulary Part 3

For this week, our social studies teacher assigned u 27 more words to define. Most of these words I don't know what the meanings are, so this will be interesting. We also have to search how to build an medieval abbey and see what a medieval church looks like.

Roman Catholic Church: the Christian church of which the pope, or bishop of Rome, is the supreme head.

Pope: the bishop of Rome as head of the Roman Catholic Church.

Cardinal: Roman Catholic Church. a high ecclesiastic appointed by the pope to the College of Cardinals and ranking above every other ecclesiastic but the pope.

Archbishop: a bishop of the highest rank who presides over an archibshopric or archdiocese.

Bishop: a person who supervises a number of local churches or a diocese, being in the Greek, Roman Catholic, Anglican, and other churches a member of the highest order of the ministry.

priest: a person whose office it is to perform religious rites, and especially to make sacraficial offerings.

monk: (in Christianity) a man who has withdrawn from the world
 for religious reasons, especially as a member of an order of 
cenobites living according to a particular rule and under vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience.

nun: a woman member of a religious order, especially one bound by vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience.

clergy: the group or body of ordained persons in a religion, as distinguished from the laity.

cathedral: the principal church of a diocese, containing the bishop's throne.

church: a building for public Christian worship.

monastery: a house or place of residence occupied by a community of persons, especially monks, living in seclusion under religious vows.

mendicant: a member of any of several orders of friars that 
originally forbade ownership of property, subsisting mostly on alms.

friar: Roman Catholic Church. a member of a religious order, especially the mendicant orders of Franciscans, Dominicans, Carmelites, and Augustinians.

abbey: a monastery under the supervision of an abbot or a convent under the supervision of an abbess.

abbot: a man who is the head or superior, usually elected, of a monastery.

abbess: a woman who is the superior of a convent of nuns.

nunnery: a building or group of buildings for nuns; convent.

sacraments: Ecclesiastical. a visible sign of an inward grace, especially one of the solemn Christian rites considered to have 
been instituted by Jesus Christ to symbolize or confer grace: the 
sacraments of the Protestant churches are baptism and the Lord's Supper; the sacraments of the  matrimony, penance, holy orders, and 
extreme unction.

baptism: Ecclesiastical. a ceremonial immersion in water, or application of water, as an initiatory rite or sacrament of the Christian church.

eucharist: the sacrament of Holy Communion; the sacrifice of the Mass; the Lord's Supper.

confirmation: a rite administered to baptized persons, in some
 churches as a sacrament for confirming and strengthening the recipient   in the Christian faith, in others as a rite without sacramental 
character by which the recipient is admitted to full communion with the church.

matrimony: the rite, ceremony, or sacrament of marriage.

Holy Orders: (used with a plural verb) the major degrees or grades of the Christian ministry.

Penance: a sacrament, as in the Roman Catholic Church, consisting in a confession of sin, made with sorrow and with the intention of amendment, followed by the forgiveness of the sin.

Extreme unction: anointing of the sick.

New Testament: 
the covenant between God and humans in which the dispensation of grace is revealed through Jesus Christ.

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Interior of Medieval Church:

           

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Medieval Trades

For this assignment, our teacher assigned us to look up medieval trades such as shops and tools in the Middle Ages. We can either search up online or use books for this assignment. We have to write a description for each tool and shop in the medieval times and how many meters was for one person's farmland back then.

Shops:

There were many well known shops back them in Medieval times. Here are some of them and their jobs:

Interior of Medieval Carpenter:

Carpenters build or repair wooden structures such as houses, scaffolding, windows, arches, etc.
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 Interior of Medieval Cobbler:

Cobblers are people who fix or repair shoes for a li
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Interior of Medieval Glover:


Glover are people who makes or sell gloves.
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Interior of Medieval Blacksmith:


Blacksmith were people who repaired and sharpened building tools. They basically repair stuff made from iron like horseshoes.
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Interior of Medieval Tinker:


Tinkers traveled to different places and they make money by repairing small items such as pots and pan. 
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Interior of Medieval Potter:





Potters are workers who make bowls,pots,plates out of clay and by their own hands.
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Interior of Medieval Cooper:


Cooper are workers who repairs or mends wooden casks or barrels.
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Interior of Medieval Wheeler (wheelwright):


Wheeler are people or workers who repairs or makes wheels and wheel vehicles. They also sell it too.
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Interior of Medieval Tanner:


Tanner are workers who sell and make clothing or shoes out of leather. 
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Interior of Medieval Baker:


Bakers are people or workers who bake and cell cakes, bread, etc.
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Interior of Medieval Butcher:


A butcher are workers or people who kill animals and cut meat such as pig, chickens, and cows. When are finished cutting and cleaning it, they sell them to other people in the town.
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Interior of Medieval Barber:


A Barber is a person or worker who cuts people hair. They were also doctors and surgeon back then.
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Interior of Medieval Tailor:


A tailor is a worker or person who makes clothes such as suits, pants, jackets, etc and sell them to other people.
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Interior of Medieval Fuller:


A fuller is when workers use people's urine to and is used as cleansing and whitening cloths.
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Interior of Medieval Miller:


A miller is a person or worker who grinds grain into flour by using a wheel or a milling machine.
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Interior of Medieval Brewer:


A brewer is a person who boils ale or beer. They also sell them and ferment malt and hops.
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Tools:
There were a lot of tools back them in the middle ages that people used for building and other stuffs. Here are most of the tools the people back then used:

Tools of a Blacksmith:


This is some of the stuff that blacksmith. They use the anvil and hammer to shape the iron metals. They also use bellows to put air into the fireplace when in the process of making so it could burn faster.
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Tools of a Carpenter:


Some of the tools carpenter use were axes. They were used to shape and cut wood in order to build stuff with it. Chisels were also used back then to cut along the grain of the wood to make small holes. Saws were made to cut wood into smaller pieces. Braces were also used back then to create smaller holes.
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Tools of a Cobbler:


Cobblers use this thing called an awl and it is designed for poking small holes in leather when making shoes. There are two types of awls. Make sure you get the right one!
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Tools of a Tinker:


This tool is called a smith. It is used for fixing lanterns. Tinkers use this tool by applying to the joint between the metal object to unite them. They also use shears.
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Tools of a Potter:


The tool that a potter uses is a wheel. They firstly get clay and place it on the wheel's head and form the interior bottom of the vessel.
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Tools of a Cooper:



The tool coopers use are called an adze. They were used to drill in stuff. Barrels was not an easy thing to make. Some of the barrel's part were called staves,hoops,etc. 
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Tools of a Wheeler (wheelwright):


These are some of the tools that a wheeler used back then. One of these tools is called a drawknife. It was used with both hands to round the edges of wood and making it sharply clean.
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Tools of a Tanner:


Tanners used tools such as lunalarium which is kind of like a blade, stretching tray,etc. This picture is what a tannery looked like back then.
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Tools of a Baker:



Bakers had a cooking oven in the medieval kitchen as shown in the picture. People would use spits, which is a long wooden stick and it kind of looks like a paddle where you put food on and roast or cook it in the fireplace/oven. There is a stool where you can sit too.
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Tools of a Butcher:


Butchers used knifes or different types of meat cleavers to by slaughtering or cutting ducks,cows,pigs,dogs,chickens,etc. Back then, it made food produced very clean and people would enjoy it.
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Tools of a Barber:


Barbers weren't just for cutting people's hair. They were also doctors. One of the tools they used back then were called bone cutters. Bone cutters were used to allow cutting in the skin so that it could reach the bone. Another item they used back then was called an arrow puller. It was meant to put around the base of the arrow, while the sharp scissors would cut the skin.
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Tools of a Tailor:


One of the tools tailors used were called thimbles. This was made so when you sew clothing, the needle wouldn't stab your or go into your skin. It protects your skin. they also used iron for straightening clothes. 
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Tools of a Fuller:


Fuller's job was to clean cloth and people used urine or bleach and sticks to stir.
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Tools of a Miller:


Millers back then made a machine to grind grains into flour.
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Tools of a Brewer:


Some of the brewer's tools used back then were wooden containers, pots to put the ingredients inside. Brewers would brew ale,beer, etc. They also got grain and took it to the mill to be made into flour and then brew it.
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Tools of a Glover:


One of the tools that were used back then was leather for making gloves.
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Question:

Back then in medieval times, the farmland to support one person was 1 acre. One acre converted to meters is 4046.86 meters! That is a lot!